Policies

Attendance: Please plan to attend the entire conference. If you absolutely, positively cannot attend the entire conference and need your presentation scheduled on a specific day, you must let us know when you submit your proposal. Panels will run at the following approximate times: 2:30-7:30 Friday, 8:30-6:15 Saturday, and 8:00-1:00 Sunday. We may begin at 12:45 on Friday if demand so dictates. Special events will include a reception on Friday evening and a luncheon and speaker on Saturday. These events, plus continental breakfast on Saturday and Sunday, will be free for conference registrants.

Audio-visual equipment: The only audio-visual equipment available from the Association will be a DVD player and monitor, and you must ask for it at the time you submit your proposal. With appropriate preparation, a DVD player can play audio, video, and still images.

Organization designation: If you wish your presentation to be listed as Midwest American Culture Association (rather than Midwest Popular Culture Association), please include this request with your proposal.

Membership and Registration: See our registration page.

Conference Hotel: See our registration page.

Financial Assistance: Travel grants are available for graduate students. Otherwise, unfortunately, MPCA/MACA is not able to provide financial assistance to participants to defray costs of transportation, lodging, meals, registration, or any other expense.

Cancellation Policy: If you submit a proposal (or if you accept an invitation to appear on a panel), you are promising to attend the conference if your proposal is accepted and you are promising to pay the conference registration fee, the Association membership fee, and a late fee of $15 if applicable. If your proposal is accepted and you do not attend the conference, it is expected that you will

1. Notify all members of your panel, your area chair, and the MPCA/MACA Executive Secretary (Gary Burns) of your cancellation
2. Provide such notification as early as possible
3. Arrange to have your paper distributed at the panel
4. Arrange for somebody else to carry out any other duties you may have
5. and Pay your membership and registration fees (plus late fee if applicable)

If conditions 1-5 are met, you may file a written request, after the conference, for a refund of half your registration fee. For coauthored papers, all authors are welcome and encouraged to attend, but only one author is required to attend.